张伟杰（梁朝伟）在警界服务多年，屡建奇功，因此获调派往严重罪案调查科。杰办案时认识了退隐江湖的车房老板边城（高雄），两人惺惺相惜，成为知己。惟城逼于情势而重投黑社会，与杰为敌。 另方面，杰的婚姻亦起风波，妻子叶巧宜（曾华倩）提出离婚，而清新可人的酒廊歌手程月如（邓萃雯）此时闯进杰的生命中…… 时两大黑社会巨头郑康贵（光毅）、卓寿贤（鲍方）展开恶斗，杰受命铲除两帮势力，却因而连累了宜…… 一连串冲击接踵而来，杰将如何面对？
Season 5 finds Murder, She Wrote's intrepid Jessica Fletcher in fine sleuthing form, and venturing farther afield from Cabot Cove--a good thing, since at the rate the murders have been happening, that town would be nearly cleaned out. Some of the best episodes take place in more exotic locales like New York (dead man on the street, wearing just one shoe), Montana (a publishing convention gone horribly wrong) and West Virginia (two whistle-blowers at a coal company found gruesomely murdered). Angela Lansbury sparkles with determination and bonhomie, hitting her stride and then some. Jessica's own life backstory is even filled out tantalizingly, especially in the episode "The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel," in which an investigation is launched into a mysterious cargo plane that is linked, she learns to her horror, to her late husband. The series' other delight is watching for cameos by stars of a certain age, and this season doesn't disappoint, with appearances by Roddy McDowall, Shelley Fabares, and Dinah Shore--but also some up-and-comers like Megan Mullally (proof positive that the Will & Grace whine was a put-on) and future satirist Bill Maher.
